Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT. Sam was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, Sam co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity.

Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator. He is also one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies.

Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser while studying computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1994, he co-founded Netscape, which only four years later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. In 1999, he co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018.

Marc holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Marc serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Applied Intuition, Carta, Coinbase, Dialpad, Flow, Honor, Samsara and TipTop Labs. He is also on the board of Meta.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and a Founding Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She served as the Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. Dr. Li was Vice President at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud during her sabbatical from Stanford in 2017-2018. She has served as a Board member or advisor in various public or private companies, as well as the White House and United Nations. Dr. Li is currently the Co-founder/CEO of World Labs, a generative AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She has been recognized as Distinguished Alumni by both Princeton and Caltech in 2020 and 2024 respectively. She also holds Doctorate Degrees (Honorary) from Harvey Mudd College and Yale University.

Dr. Li is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). She is also a Fellow of ACM, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the company in its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.

Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.

Brett McGurk has held senior national security appointments across the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. Most recently he was the White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa under President Biden, where he spearheaded negotiations on two ceasefire and hostage release deals in the Gaza conflict, leading to the release of nearly 150 hostages, and helped organize the defense of Israel against two of the largest ballistic missile attacks in history.

He was an architect of the India Middle East to Europe (IMEC) corridor concept and managed the deployment of advanced US technology in the Middle East consistent with national security priorities. He previously served as Special Presidential Envoy under Obama and Trump, leading the global campaign to defeat ISIS. McGurk is now a Special Advisor for International Affairs at Cisco, a partner at Lux Capital, and a senior advisor at Todal Partners. He is also Global Affairs Analyst for CNN and a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and the Atlantic Council.

He is finally authoring a book on presidential decision-making based on his first-hand experience serving the last four presents to be published by Crown.